While many stimulus projects have come under fire as pork barrel spending, backers of the nets program say it is a model for helping those battered by the economic downturn while completing needed public works.
Unfortunately, the Leica's take-up spool needs a long tapering tongue of film, which users must wedge under a spring clip on the spool's barrel before manually wrapping a few turns of film around it.
Members of Opec, made up of the world's major oil producers, have come under pressure to do something to stop the recent sharp rises in the cost of a barrel.